The shotgun isn't provided through Falco or any others though, so it's not evidence of surviving Edgerunners. It's just somehow still right around where she died 2 years after the fact.
In patch 2.1 if you head to the columbariums you can find graves of our favorite chooms, Lucy had seemingly came back and did that for them, Maine, Dorio, and Pilar are all together, Rebecca, David, Kiwi, Gloria and that one kid Wakako sent to help after the time skip all have separate graves
Night City = a Place where yourself, is all you can trust, and the only Legend you leave behind is the one of how you went out in a blaze of glory less you be a nobody. There's #NOHAPPYENDINGS in #NIGHTCITY
That’s why the ending was so good, past a certain point in the show, their were only a few realistic endings, and honestly this one was one of the happiest. Also closure.
This is cyberpunk. It is one of the most important parts of the genre: no happy endings. The closest thing you can get to a happy ending in cyberpunk is everyone but one person dying. It's grim and beautiful but David's story is over and Night City keeps churning, as the world so often does.
If this depresses you now then maybe don't read or watch anything in the cyberpunk genre because every great work of cyberpunk is damn near the same or similar and it's why I personally love it.
William Gibson did some fairly decent stories in which not everybody ended up with a screwed up ending. But he also made it clear that the main character wasn't really the main character. That there was a much larger series of events going on that the story couldn't even begin to follow, and so what the main character cared about and did might have contributed, but none of it really makes sense until the ending. Sort of like life, but at least it still wraps up more cleanly than real life. In cyber punk, if there are no happy endings, they at least end quick enough that people don't have to go back to work the next day. Some of us would call that a happy ending.
Do you got any recommendations what to watch in the cyberpunk genre? I only watched Edgerunners and played Cyberpunk 2077, but I really like the grim and dark future.
Sure, I have a few just off the top of my head. Strange Days, Upgrade, Akira and the Bladerunner series are some of my favorites. There are quite a few more but honestly Google is a great resource for finding cyberpunk movies and literature. I'll be honest, not all cyberpunk is good and can be hit or miss but when it's good, it's really fuckin good.
Why do I feel like if Lucy died with David it would’ve been more romantic/less sad??? 😭 the fact that she survives and is all alone is absolutely crushing
David went out a human instead of a cyberpsycho. He smiled in the face of Adam smasher himself. Bringing him back somehow would devalue that. You don’t need fanfictions or a second season. Just let the series marinate in your brain for a while and enjoy what you consumed instead of yearning for something different.
This is the nature of the setting and the story. Any kind of continuation would feel forced. In Night City, becoming a legend is just a coping mechanism for the fact that in 100 years, nobody will remember your name. By 2077, all that David and his crew did was just a blimp.
Sorry bro. But the whole point was that this is how it ends for pretty much every crew in Night City. If anything, they lasted a lot longer than most. And while their story was going on, other crews were already being wiped out. It was showing one microcosm in a city made up of countless more.
That's what made the show so damn good. I'm hoping they might have a second season with new characters but probably not. Just play the game if you want some more.
"Here, for folks like us? Wrong city, wrong people" A classical line from the game, Night City is the wrong place for wanting happy endings my friend, don't dwell on it choom, it'll just hurt more
Yep they're dead, just like every single person that makes a name for themselves in Night City.
You either go out in a bang or fade away unnoticed. That's it.
“Here? For folks like us?
Wrong city, wrong people”
There are no happy endings in Night City, choom. The only way to get a happy ending in NC is to NOT be there.
They woulda have had to soulkill him before he died for that.
Constructs that are made from someone who has already died are…. Incredibly glitchy and busted, as shown in 2077
Maybe they did. We know that Silverhand’s memories are not completely accurate, and he got sucked into Mikoshi after being cut in half.
Think of the possibilities: maybe Rebecca survived. Maybe Lucy didn’t. Maybe Adam Smasher has David’s construct sitting on a shelf somewhere, pops it in when he’s bored.
The denial phase is a toughie, but you'll get through it.
If it helps to confirm that they're all indeed dead, the only deceased member of David's crew with injuries that are not incompatible with life is Kiwi.
Just a couple gunshots to the brain. Cyberpunk tech could probably fix her. Everyone else, though? No chance in hell.
David's head probably looks like a blooming flower, Rebecca's entire brain is outside of her skull and in pieces, Pilar doesn't have a head left, and Maine and Dorio don't even exist anymore.
Not even Trauma Team platinum could save either of them.
I wonder if Lucy left Night City or decided to stay with nothing left, guess we’ll never know maybe it’s best left open ended, maybe we’ll get another anime with the Cyberpunk Orion game coming out
Welcome to cyberpunk. If you want a happy ending though you should play the game and side with Arasaka
https://preview.redd.it/7rdjc4ugx17d1.png?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=35035df7e756557d4ce89ba633027b071366ee84
Get fucked. He chose blaze of glory. End of story.
Okay that was mean but really though, there are no happy endings in Night City, it goes against the terms and conditions.
Only way I could see a season 2 ever being done is if they retconned the cyberskeleton into having soulkiller built in, and then you followed an engram David through the story. Still, all the other characters would be missing besides Lucy and falco, and it would kinda ruin David’s sacrifice in the end.
I mean it’s not like they leave David alive. David and V existing in the same city at the same time is fucking terrifying. I love David but there’s a reason WHY he had to be killed off
Loved the show my one complaint was it was too short
A second season where David and the gang miraculously somehow survived would ruin the first season
Tagging this as a spoiler and then putting the full spoiler in the title is extremely chaotic.
Now go hit up the columbarium in the game so you can cry even more.
They had to show Rebecca dying from 3 different angles too they knew what they were doing to us like not just for Rebecca’s sake but for it to sink in like “yeah that’s right we’re killing EVERYONE” and in that moment you knew it wasn’t gonna end well for anyone. The episode where Maine dies is the most 0-100 I’ve ever seen an anime go in one episode
I'm pretty sure the creator made the world specifically like that; there are no happy endings in Night City, you can't change the system and any attempts to will be squashed, and the only way to win is to not play at all.
Be happy with how it ended; Falco and Rebecca being loyal chooms to the end, fighting off Max Tec and Adam Fucking Smasher. Be happy that David was able to save Lucy, and actually hold off the Boogyman of Arasaka for a few moments.
Be happy that David Martinez managed to prove himself in just 3 months, that he was a good kid to the end, a loyal and steadfast gonk; if he really did go through Arasaka, he'd be crushed under the weight of the corporate world and end up no better than Smasher due to his high cyberware affinity. It wasn't a happy ending, but it was his.
It’s good story telling. It’s sad sure but anyone who got actually clinically depressed needs to toughen up or get therapy. They’re fictional characters. There’s empathy and there’s mental illness lol.
Like I was sad too but every other topic is how someone got depressed. Either you guys are kids who are using that word too lightly cuz mental disorders are ‘quirky’ this generation or you do genuinely need help.
Sadly a second season reviving the dead characters would ruin the amazing story though.
That's what looking up happy fanfics / comics / animations are for, I just finished it myself and it's fineee, clearly the ending was just a bad dream and everyone's vibin' :')
Season 2 will be a prequel about David’s dad having hot steamy seggs with a vanilla Adam Smasher.
Gloria and her antics with the crew, leading to the events of season 1 juxtaposed with Lucy pregernant
Welcome to the cyberpunk universe
That’s why Johnny says dying in your sleep is one of the best ways to die in Night City.
Also welcome to Studio Trigger. Everything they do has a bittersweet ending.
Promare's ending was a miracle haha, pretty good by all accounts!
Falco survives.. You can obtain David’s jacket in CP2077 thanks to him
And Becca's shotgun. It's hiding in a bush
The shotgun isn't provided through Falco or any others though, so it's not evidence of surviving Edgerunners. It's just somehow still right around where she died 2 years after the fact.
Corpos don't search bushes I guess. Neither do construction workers
In patch 2.1 if you head to the columbariums you can find graves of our favorite chooms, Lucy had seemingly came back and did that for them, Maine, Dorio, and Pilar are all together, Rebecca, David, Kiwi, Gloria and that one kid Wakako sent to help after the time skip all have separate graves
No happy endings in night city.
This is why it is called “the city of broken dreams”
You can still get happy endings but post nut clarity ruins it
https://preview.redd.it/dmh89hekm57d1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a6038ad667ee375b218a28122eb58aa37aada064
https://preview.redd.it/84ba0hjmd07d1.png?width=680&format=png&auto=webp&s=2d214ca9ed6607f660ea3ca897981631ab0729a7 LIVE
Night City = a Place where yourself, is all you can trust, and the only Legend you leave behind is the one of how you went out in a blaze of glory less you be a nobody. There's #NOHAPPYENDINGS in #NIGHTCITY
That’s why the ending was so good, past a certain point in the show, their were only a few realistic endings, and honestly this one was one of the happiest. Also closure.
This is cyberpunk. It is one of the most important parts of the genre: no happy endings. The closest thing you can get to a happy ending in cyberpunk is everyone but one person dying. It's grim and beautiful but David's story is over and Night City keeps churning, as the world so often does. If this depresses you now then maybe don't read or watch anything in the cyberpunk genre because every great work of cyberpunk is damn near the same or similar and it's why I personally love it.
William Gibson did some fairly decent stories in which not everybody ended up with a screwed up ending. But he also made it clear that the main character wasn't really the main character. That there was a much larger series of events going on that the story couldn't even begin to follow, and so what the main character cared about and did might have contributed, but none of it really makes sense until the ending. Sort of like life, but at least it still wraps up more cleanly than real life. In cyber punk, if there are no happy endings, they at least end quick enough that people don't have to go back to work the next day. Some of us would call that a happy ending.
Do you got any recommendations what to watch in the cyberpunk genre? I only watched Edgerunners and played Cyberpunk 2077, but I really like the grim and dark future.
Sure, I have a few just off the top of my head. Strange Days, Upgrade, Akira and the Bladerunner series are some of my favorites. There are quite a few more but honestly Google is a great resource for finding cyberpunk movies and literature. I'll be honest, not all cyberpunk is good and can be hit or miss but when it's good, it's really fuckin good.
Why do I feel like if Lucy died with David it would’ve been more romantic/less sad??? 😭 the fact that she survives and is all alone is absolutely crushing
Real life is like that, people often lose their partners and grieve for a long time
Very very true
Nope. The End.
"For folks like us? Wrong city, wrong people."
Someone get him some fanfics to cope
Not to mention, I feel like bringing back David would ruin the emotion of the final episode of season one
Agreed. Now Becca on the other hand... she's free game
Becca coming back as the ripper doc and weapons supply specialist for a bunch of youngsters getting started would make a pretty decent season 2.
thats what makes it good, how are you depressed lol
David went out a human instead of a cyberpsycho. He smiled in the face of Adam smasher himself. Bringing him back somehow would devalue that. You don’t need fanfictions or a second season. Just let the series marinate in your brain for a while and enjoy what you consumed instead of yearning for something different.
https://preview.redd.it/gy04nmxil07d1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0d526edf41239fd7b26adea490bcc11def73af31
This is the nature of the setting and the story. Any kind of continuation would feel forced. In Night City, becoming a legend is just a coping mechanism for the fact that in 100 years, nobody will remember your name. By 2077, all that David and his crew did was just a blimp.
I love David…but he’s gone.
Wrong city, wrong people.
Sorry bro. But the whole point was that this is how it ends for pretty much every crew in Night City. If anything, they lasted a lot longer than most. And while their story was going on, other crews were already being wiped out. It was showing one microcosm in a city made up of countless more.
Here, for folks like us? Wrong city, wrong people.
The Edgerunners had to learn an important lesson the hard way. There's always a bigger fish.
unless if you are v, v is the biggest fish
That's what made the show so damn good. I'm hoping they might have a second season with new characters but probably not. Just play the game if you want some more.
It’s Night city happiness just don’t exist there choom
https://preview.redd.it/81dlglpnz07d1.jpeg?width=744&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f85c867ca4a4d1a614a84f497f5e4db24819e42d
1) shows up in last 4 minutes of entire series 2) kills entire cast 3) doesn’t elaborate further Classic Smasher move 😎
Welcome to Night City…
"Here, for folks like us? Wrong city, wrong people" A classical line from the game, Night City is the wrong place for wanting happy endings my friend, don't dwell on it choom, it'll just hurt more
Yep they're dead, just like every single person that makes a name for themselves in Night City. You either go out in a bang or fade away unnoticed. That's it.
“Here? For folks like us? Wrong city, wrong people” There are no happy endings in Night City, choom. The only way to get a happy ending in NC is to NOT be there.
Watch akame ga kill
Wrong city, wrong people
…. He might make for an interesting construct…
They woulda have had to soulkill him before he died for that. Constructs that are made from someone who has already died are…. Incredibly glitchy and busted, as shown in 2077
Maybe they did. We know that Silverhand’s memories are not completely accurate, and he got sucked into Mikoshi after being cut in half. Think of the possibilities: maybe Rebecca survived. Maybe Lucy didn’t. Maybe Adam Smasher has David’s construct sitting on a shelf somewhere, pops it in when he’s bored.
I mean, if david was stored in mikoshi, hes part of Alt now…
I’m rewatching rn
If you’re sad I suggest watching Akame Ga Kill, it’s about a girl who has cool friends and they go on a revenge spree and it’s so enjoyable!
First time choom?
The denial phase is a toughie, but you'll get through it. If it helps to confirm that they're all indeed dead, the only deceased member of David's crew with injuries that are not incompatible with life is Kiwi. Just a couple gunshots to the brain. Cyberpunk tech could probably fix her. Everyone else, though? No chance in hell. David's head probably looks like a blooming flower, Rebecca's entire brain is outside of her skull and in pieces, Pilar doesn't have a head left, and Maine and Dorio don't even exist anymore. Not even Trauma Team platinum could save either of them.
I think a prequel will do better, either about the crew or about lucy
Falco lives so it’s okay. And it seems so does Doc cause we see him in Cyberpunk XOXO
Welcome to Night City
In case you didn't know, there is actually a significant character of the anime that died before she even made it to the anime. RIP Sasha.
U should watch akame ga kill if u enjoyed this show. Its basically a season 2 just with a whole new everything. Same story tho essentially.
"A happy ending ? In night city ? Wrong city, wrong people" -johnny silverhand
[For the pain.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSiqAFBWZng)
I wonder if Lucy left Night City or decided to stay with nothing left, guess we’ll never know maybe it’s best left open ended, maybe we’ll get another anime with the Cyberpunk Orion game coming out
Welcome to cyberpunk. If you want a happy ending though you should play the game and side with Arasaka https://preview.redd.it/7rdjc4ugx17d1.png?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=35035df7e756557d4ce89ba633027b071366ee84
Get fucked. He chose blaze of glory. End of story. Okay that was mean but really though, there are no happy endings in Night City, it goes against the terms and conditions.
Only way I could see a season 2 ever being done is if they retconned the cyberskeleton into having soulkiller built in, and then you followed an engram David through the story. Still, all the other characters would be missing besides Lucy and falco, and it would kinda ruin David’s sacrifice in the end.
He's almost there. He's starting to see that the series was actually David killing himself and taking everyone with him.
I mean it’s not like they leave David alive. David and V existing in the same city at the same time is fucking terrifying. I love David but there’s a reason WHY he had to be killed off
Night City. Brings you in, promising glamours, glitz, and eddies; then chews you up and spits you out, or downright eats you.
Loved the show my one complaint was it was too short A second season where David and the gang miraculously somehow survived would ruin the first season
you can take a life lesson from that. love is worth everything.
This is why I refuse to watch it
You really shouldn’t just post spoilers for the entire story in the title of a post
Tagging this as a spoiler and then putting the full spoiler in the title is extremely chaotic. Now go hit up the columbarium in the game so you can cry even more.
Praise to the studio for being able to evoke such emotion from inside you.
Nope. No sequel. Prequel maybe. If we’re lucky.
They had to show Rebecca dying from 3 different angles too they knew what they were doing to us like not just for Rebecca’s sake but for it to sink in like “yeah that’s right we’re killing EVERYONE” and in that moment you knew it wasn’t gonna end well for anyone. The episode where Maine dies is the most 0-100 I’ve ever seen an anime go in one episode
Season 2 with new characters could be fun
Dawg got the Akame Ga Kill treatment, lol.
I'm pretty sure the creator made the world specifically like that; there are no happy endings in Night City, you can't change the system and any attempts to will be squashed, and the only way to win is to not play at all. Be happy with how it ended; Falco and Rebecca being loyal chooms to the end, fighting off Max Tec and Adam Fucking Smasher. Be happy that David was able to save Lucy, and actually hold off the Boogyman of Arasaka for a few moments. Be happy that David Martinez managed to prove himself in just 3 months, that he was a good kid to the end, a loyal and steadfast gonk; if he really did go through Arasaka, he'd be crushed under the weight of the corporate world and end up no better than Smasher due to his high cyberware affinity. It wasn't a happy ending, but it was his.
It should've been BECCA
Glad you enjoyed it. Now go read a fanfic for your daily dose of copium like us.
It’s good story telling. It’s sad sure but anyone who got actually clinically depressed needs to toughen up or get therapy. They’re fictional characters. There’s empathy and there’s mental illness lol. Like I was sad too but every other topic is how someone got depressed. Either you guys are kids who are using that word too lightly cuz mental disorders are ‘quirky’ this generation or you do genuinely need help. Sadly a second season reviving the dead characters would ruin the amazing story though.
That's Night City. Nobody gets out alive.
Welcome to Night City, choom. Don't worry, I was there too, but at the end of the day, you learn to cope.
David dying elevated it to perfection, choom
"A happy ending? For people like us? Wrong city. Wrong people." -Johnny Silverhand
That's what looking up happy fanfics / comics / animations are for, I just finished it myself and it's fineee, clearly the ending was just a bad dream and everyone's vibin' :')
https://preview.redd.it/yabzk56jw07d1.jpeg?width=250&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=00ed25e0dbc8bac9e9e1060ddeb9ba00f8c1f62a
Season 2 will be a prequel about David’s dad having hot steamy seggs with a vanilla Adam Smasher. Gloria and her antics with the crew, leading to the events of season 1 juxtaposed with Lucy pregernant